Funding for Louisiana Wetlands Restoration Clears Senate Subcommittee
Updated: 2010-07-26 11:17:03
The Mississippi River Delta. Source: NASA
U.S. President Obama’s budget request to begin funding coastal Louisiana restoration construction projects was approved last Tuesday by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, amounting to what conservation groups characterized as a “a down payment in what must be a long-term commitment to restoring and protecting coastal [...]
Map of global forest heights shows canopy height in shades of green from 0 to 70 meters (230 feet). For any patch of forest, the height shown means that 90 percent or more of the trees in the patch are that tall or taller. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. Image by Jesse Allen [...]
A healthy Nebraska wheat field. Credit: Stephen Ausmus.
Research that could lead to a reduction in worldwide wheat yield losses appeared online this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, revealing how fungi responsible for the diseases tan spot and leaf blotch target a single wheat gene and trigger a type of cellular [...]